As Node.js developers, we spend an incredible amount of time in the "Edit-Restart-Debug" cycle. Every console.log requires a process restart, which kills our flow and wastes hours every week.

I built Breakinto to change that. It s an open-source, terminal-first interactive debugger designed to bring the "Pry" (Ruby) or "IPDB" (Python) experience to the Node.js ecosystem.

Why is it different?

• Interactive REPL: Pause execution anywhere and jump into a live shell.

• Hot-Reloading (.reload): Found a bug while paused? Edit the file in your IDE, hit .reload, and the running function patches in-memory without losing state.

• Snapshot Testing (.snap): Instantly serialize live runtime variables into Vitest/Jest test files to reproduce bugs later.

• Split-Process Architecture: Robust separation ensures the debugger never crashes your host application.